Creating net-zero public engagement
Local Climate Engagement is a project to support local authorities or partnerships to plan, commission and deliver high quality public engagement in how best to reduce carbon emissions. Sarah Allan explains.
Pothole breakdowns hit record high
14/01/2022 RAC’s patrols attended over 10,000 pothole-related breakdowns last year – the equivalent of 27 every single day and the highest annual total since 2018. |
Reading council leads on £3.3m project to transform station
18/08/2021 Works for major improvements to Reading West Station began this week with roadworks on the Oxford Road to make space for a brand new station building. |
Shapps announces £15m congestion and pothole scheme
13/08/2021 Transport Secretary Grant Shapps today announced a multimillion-pound scheme to improve traffic signals and explore the use of drones to help fix local roads. |
Councils can issue traffic fines from December
15/06/2021 Powers to enforce moving traffic offences will not be extended to local authorities in England outside London until the end of the year, a Department for Transport (DfT) minister has said. |
Swindon wins again on Eastern Village infrastructure cash
17/05/2021 Swindon BC has scooped another tranche of roads cash for the New Eastern Villages development, with the DfT allocating a further £11.6m to supporting works. |
Cost to fix pothole-ridden local roads £10.24bn
31/03/2021 The estimated one-time cost to get local roads in England and Wales back into a ‘reasonable, steady state’ is £10.24bn, according to this year’s ALARM survey. |
Council chiefs warn of ‘chronic need’ for bridge repair funding
02/03/2020 Local leaders have said there is a ‘chronic need’ for investment in local roads in response to a report on the number of substandard road bridges in Britain. |
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Councils awarded share of £93m fund to repair potholes
02/03/2020 Local authorities are to be awarded a share of a multi-million pound funding pot to repair roads and bridges, the Government has announced. |
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Councils urged to apply for £120,000 local road fund
17/09/2019 Local authorities are today being urged to apply for a new grant fund aimed at improving the safety of local roads. |
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TfN submits £700m proposals for National Roads Fund
21/08/2019 Transport for the North has submitted £700m bids to the National Roads Fund, including 12 schemes for the major road network and four for large local majors. |
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Grayling warned £350m local roads fund is ‘not enough’
22/07/2019 Council chiefs have told the Government a recently announced £350m funding boost to help improve local roads is not an alternative to long-term investment. |
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Funding cuts could have paid for eight million pothole repairs, council chiefs say
08/07/2019 Council leaders have called for more cash after calculating money cut from road funding budgets over the last decade could have fixed millions of potholes. |
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London roads backlog hits £1bn
04/06/2019 The road maintenance backlog in London has hit more than £1bn for the first time, as boroughs concede they are presiding over a state of managed decline. |
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Grayling orders councils to stop 'bamboozling' pedestrians
23/04/2019 Transport secretary Chris Grayling has ordered councils to stop 'bamboozling' pedestrians by putting up road signs using metric measurements. |
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Budget 2018: Cash for care could be swallowed up by rates relief
28/10/2018 Chancellor Phillip Hammond is expected to announce nearly a billion pounds for social care in an austerity-busting budget later today. |
This issue of Public Property examines how how flexible workspaces can lead the way in regeneration for local authorities, Why local authority intervention is key to successful urban regeneration schemes and if the Government’s challenge of embracing beauty is an opportunity for communities.
The March issue also takes a closer look at Blackburn with Darwen Council's first digital health hub to help people gain control over health and care services.
